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How Large Corporations Hurt Small Business

Large corporations employ millions in the US, with their assets and earnings representing a large portion of the nation’s economy. Some say that it has lead to American prosperity; however, if you look around in a room full of your peers, you may find it hard to find someone that it has led to theirs.

Cash Flow

Big business takes money out of circulation and is inefficient at distributing wealth throughout the economy. You can see this through centralized pay roll in large, multi-state corporations with employee tax withholdings, paid quarterly to the IRS, topping out at 39.6 percent in 2013. That’s not including the Medicare and Social Security withholdings, in addition to state income tax withholding where applicable.

Then there are waves of monetary resources funneled into the stock market each pay period; artificially induced by pre-tax incentives through 401k, pension plans and such. These “investments” come directly out of millions of Americans paychecks before they are deposited into their bank accounts.

All this equals cash flow in the large corporation’s coffers. The government doesn’t care, as they get a nice monthly and bi-weekly kick of payment for tax. Small business never sees any of this cash flow.

Jobs

It seems like politics are abuzz with talk of “Jobs”. “We have to create more jobs, it will save us all” is how we could all agree to summarize what we’ve heard. Why are we always talking about job creation and growth rates?

It is simply nothing more than the sources we hear about jobs from and their interests in creating jobs in which lies the reason for all the noise. Large corporations, the government, and the media they sponsor get their power (cash flow) and profits from employing people. Employing people for the lowest price and pushing liabilities away from revenue equals high profits.

Regulation of employment and general citizens is the government’s job, and oh do they do it well. The Affordable Care Act taking affect now forces every citizen to get insurance or pay fines. In essence, it is a fee for life. This money is mandated to go into the insurance companies (large corporations and banks) ledger each month first, without providing any service; without providing money to local healthcare providers. Sure, the local sales agent gets a rip, but even they too are more frequently becoming corporate employees.

Centralization of Capital

Of all the horrors mentioned prior pale in comparison to that of centralized capital. When large corporations and governments are allowed to operate, they tend to act in their own best interests. Nothing is more convenient to a large organization then to consolidate and centralize it’s capital.

These days, it seems like every good startup or small company is being bought out. A few months ago, my business insurance went from an independent agent to Liberty Mutual. Last week, my friend’s startup that he has been building for years just got acquired by LinkedIn. Whatever happened to Blockbuster Video, or Twinkies damn it?

Gone, that’s what happened to those brands. All the small businesses across America, now nice little pieces of IP and patents scooped up like an amoeba of capital. No more diversity, sacrificed for only one thing – growth. Unfortunately, we live on a finite planet and I don’t think there are enough tickets to the moon, and unless you buy “Piece of Ship”, you can’t ride with me.

Large corporations are inefficient at delivering resources to far flung bits of corporate empire. When too large, they will not perform, and as all extremities removed from nutrients do, they too will dissolve. This is what gives me the strength to keep working on my businesses. I see the holes and inefficiencies, and just like the Eskimos, have carved out a niche for my small business.

I can help you do the same for your business, or help you start your first one. America was founded by entrepreneurs. It is why we have enjoyed so much success in the past. Why are we straying from that?

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How do I get a Content ID to claim my music copyrights on YouTube? I want other people you be able to use my music on their videos while automatically giving me credit and displaying ads in accordance with the Google Content ID guidelines.

Additionally, will this allow me to put links to my CD on Google Play – matched up with my YouTube Content ID number?

You can apply for a Content ID account in YouTube here. Unfortunately, you don’t get an automatic answer and there is no way to re-apply once the process is complete. They simply say that they will contact you soon.

Anyone know of a way to get back in contact with Google or YouTube about the status of the Content ID Application?

Money in Politics – we can’t seem to get away from it. It wins elections by funding attack campaigns, gains exposure with media coverage and advertisements, and people making money together always seem to endorse each other.

What you may not realized is that the game is rigged. Let me explain how.

Now political content is fairly inexpensive to produce- so abundant that politicians hand it out in press releases, hopping to land a favorable sound bite in national news, or any coverage at all. Free content for the media.But if TV stations and newspapers gave away their limited press freely, they would never have received the more than 1/2 Billion in ad dollars spent in the 2008 Presidential Electionby Republican and Democratic leads alone – and that’s only the amount legally reported. It’s not including local elections, congress, state, judge and other appointments nor including the ones that didn’t make it. Big money…So what does the press do? They give out free coverage to the candidates that spend the most on ads, they feature candidates popular with big oil, banking and other special interests in Political Advertorials, failing to mention candidates with opposing views (Ron Paul), calling it news. Ever see those ads that don’t appear to be selling you something, but make you feel good. Those are giant corporations influencing your opinion and their press releases are the news you receive – product placement.

Isn’t it ironic that in the pursuit of democracy, we vote for candidates that will most benefit our interests, however historically and as of the recent New Hampshire primary, we elect the ones that spend the most money. Money donated to them by those that benefit from the current system, the ones with disposable income looking for tax breaks.

The whole idea of elections are to ensure that no particular person, group or entity gets too much power. You know, shake it up a little bit. It is impossible to ever have a fair election when you add money to the equation. The outcome will end up the same way, people in power stay in power. American elections exist only to validate those in power and their right to “rule”. This is a democracy, you know.

But wait, what if the current elite saw the loss of productivity caused by voter disenfranchisement and realized that the old tricks won’t work anymore. People get their information freely from the internet, validated by millions of comments from other internet users and social networkers. They might consider providing an open platform to discuss the real issues, and elect leaders that take us back to our nation’s roots of independent, small businesses and self sufficient families – what made America great in the first place.

Enter SOPA and countless other “Internet Policing” laws getting forced down our throats like medicine to a test patient. Don’t worry – it’s good for us, plus, we get paid in the form of benefits (unemployment, welfare, police). All we have to do is let our Corporation run government control the distribution of ALL our news and media – but that is another article in itself.